This year, ministers signed significant increases in the municipal tax and insisted that they are needed to provide 'vital services'.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has unveiled the financial settlement that will take effect from April – with a series of English town halls that were allowed to go over the 4.9 percent cap.
Windsor & Maidhead Borough Council has had a request to be rejected an increase of 25 percent – but will be able to impose an increase of 8.9 percent.
Newham Council in East London has received the same dispensation, while Bradford Council 9.9 percent is allowed.
The Birmingham city council, Somerset Council and Trafford Council can increase the levy by 7.49 percent.
It is thought that most other town halls are the planning of a maximum 4.9 percent of the planning.
The Ministry of Housing and Local Government said that the total financing for councils in 2025-26 was £ 69 billion.
It argued that a 6.8 percent cash increase in the core ordering power of the councils meant compared to 2024-25, which described the money as a 'lifeline'.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has unveiled the financial arrangement that will take effect from April – with a series of English town halls that were allowed to go over the 4.9 percent cap
Birmingham City Council (photo), Somerset Council and Trafford Council can increase the tax by 7.49 percent
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Mrs. Rayner said: 'Councils provide vital services throughout the country – stimulating growth and local economies and offer a lifeline for those who need this the most.
'By our plan for change, we are determined to remedy the basis of the local government; Investing where necessary, local leaders trust and collaborate to provide growth, better health and social care services and the affordable houses that people need. '
But Elliot Keck, head of the campaigns of the alliance of the taxpayers, said: 'Taxpayers will expect to see immediately results of the inflation-busting tax increases to which they are subjected, in particular in view of the increase in government financing above this rate.
'Every year, residents are affected with increasingly higher accounts, only to see little improvement in their local area.
“Town halls must wake up, smell the coffee and start a ruthless drive to increase efficiency and productivity in their all too often sclerotic organizations.”
The alliance of the taxpayers said it was a 'pleasant surprise' that the 'bar' request from Windsor & Maidenhead had been rejected.
Last week, a daily e -mail audit revealed that eight authorities had demanded permission to impose tax increases between 9.99 percent and 25 percent to residents by issuing a section 114 notification, so that bankruptcy was effectively declared. NO10 emphasized only six requests were approved.
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Birmingham is the most debt council in the UK, according to numbers released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
The authority run by the Labor, which effectively declared itself bankrupt in 2023, has a debt stack of £ 3.4 billion, although the figures do not contain any obligations that could increase them, such as pension signs or PFI contracts.
It wanted to increase the tax tax for a second consecutive year by 9.99 percent, because it tries to recover from the disastrous handling of his finances in the past.
Alderman Louise Gittins, chairman of the Local Government Association, said: 'This financial year will remain extremely challenging for all species that are now confronted with the Tax accounts of the Council to set up the desperately needed financing next year, but can still be Forced to continue cuts on services.
“We remain clearly up to the government that it is not the answer to satisfy the pressure in the long term with which the national services are confronted with many requests.”
And councilor Barry Lewis, from the County Councils Network, said: “This will be disappointing for most provincial and unitary councils and a difficult 12 months of design for those authorities.”
Ministers also received a mixed reception from the councils that demanded the tax increases.
Somerset Council said that the increase 'does not collect enough money to fill the gap'.
A spokesperson for NO10 said last night: 'We tried to find a balance and to keep taxes on working people as low as possible, while offering the necessary exceptional support in a limited number of areas.
“We have only agreed where councils are already among the lowest existing levels of municipal tax, and we have not agreed where councils have asked to increase the tax tax with a very high amount.”